As we get set for the ten-year anniversary, it’s worth asking: What’s been the cost of the War on Terror that we’ve been in almost since that day? Of course, there’s no perfect way to answer that. But over at Wired magazine, they’ve put together a chart that shows how military spending, casualties, funding for
Continue reading …You’ve heard what the pundits and expert analysts are saying about President Obama’s jobs speech. But what about the real targets of the address: the long-term unemployed? We asked Yahoo! readers who’ve recently been out of work for six months or more to tell us whether they heard anything last night that makes them more
Continue reading …What did leading economists think of President Obama’s jobs speech last night? The Daily Beast asked several of them, and although a few said that more spending and less tax cuts would offer a bigger bang for the buck, the responses were mostly pretty positive. As one put it: “This is the type of jobs
Continue reading …What did leading economists think of President Obama’s jobs speech last night? The Daily Beast asked several of them, and although a few said that more spending and less tax cuts would offer a bigger bang for the buck, the responses were mostly pretty positive. As one put it: “This is the type of jobs
Continue reading …Calling on lawmakers to “stop the political circus and actually do something to help,” President Obama laid out a roughly $450 billion package Thursday night that he said “would provide a jolt to an economy that has stalled.” “There are steps we can take right now to improve people’s lives,” Obama declared, as he unveiled
Continue reading …A federal appeals court has thrown out one of the more high-profile challenges to President Obama’s healthcare overhaul. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit rejected a lawsuit brought on behalf of the state of Virginia by its attorney general, Ken Cuccinelli, a conservative Republican. The court did not make a judgment on
Continue reading …President Obama will tell the nation tonight what he thinks the federal government should do to try to get the economy moving again and put people to work. Unfortunately for him, a new poll suggests most Americans don’t think any of the major approaches on the table are likely to succeed. The Pew Research Center
Continue reading …Do state governors create jobs? It’s an important question, because the two leading Republican presidential candidates–former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and especially Texas governor Rick Perry–are both running on their records as job creators. So Edward Glaeser, writing in the Boston Globe, crunched the numbers, to see whether job growth in their states really seemed
Continue reading …Do state governors create jobs? It’s an important question, because the two leading Republican presidential candidates–former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and especially Texas governor Rick Perry–are both running on their records as job creators. So Edward Glaeser, writing in the Boston Globe, crunched the numbers, to see whether job growth in their states really seemed
Continue reading …The number of Americans filing first-time claims for jobless benefits rose slightly last week, to 414,000, from 412,00 the previous week, the Labor Department said. The figure has hovered around 400,000 for months now. At that level, it’s all but impossible for the overall unemployment rate, currently at 9.1 percent, to decline significantly. President Obama
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